# Omnata with Salesforce Lightning Components

### Lightning Components <a href="#lightning-components" id="lightning-components"></a>

The Omnata Lightning Components are [custom components](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/lightning_app_builder/lightning_app_builder_custom_comps) that allow data from your data warehouse to be rendered on a Salesforce page.

Lightning Components do not require Salesforce Connect, but do not offer the same platform capabilities of External Objects, like object linking, reporting, and automation.

### Architecture <a href="#architecture" id="architecture"></a>

![](/files/qiSWitLjI5CUhh7CNApL)

### Use Cases <a href="#use-cases" id="use-cases"></a>

Example use cases are:

* Displaying a customer's financial transactions on the Contact Page
* Displaying a list of orders from an external ERP system, with hierarchical drill-down.


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